13 V SATURDAY.. .SEPTEMBER 12, 1896 ITEMS IN BRIEF. From Wednesday's Daily, t Joe Folco went to Cascade Locks . today. - Miss McNulty returned to her home near Mosier this morning. : Misses Cora Joles and Lizzie School log1 returned home from Portland last night. Sirs. J. M. Filloon went to Multno mah falls today and will return to morrow. - Mrs. Wm., Miehell and daughter, Miss Rose, returned last night from the coast. D. P. Ketchum went to Stovenson this morning to receive a flock of mut ton sheep. A ULUtim-piiibttU iUUUblUU peu was . . found on the streets yesterday and left - at.this office for the owner. J. L. Harper has returned from An , telope where he has been engaged at . carpenter work the past two months. Mrs. I. M. Hork and family arrived night for their former home in III : inois. Mr. and Mrs. MacAllister were pas- , 8engers on the Regulator this morn ing. They eo to" Portland for a few day's visit.- ' .- - Hod. W. H." Wilson' left this after noon for Tl nu.n. '-'TXfic. will rwl-.nrn Friday accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and daughter. No. I wheat is selling at 41 cents a - bushel in The Dalles today, only one cent lower than the same grade is bringing in Salem. Messrs. John Unper. A. A. Barrev ' and Joe Desco, of Lyle, were in the city last night and returned, home on - e, v. a. oaniora ana iamiiy nave re turned from their summer outing, and - aui. K7. una LftiLcu uls luriutsr ii.ua in A. M. Williams & Co.'s store. Pete Staddleman, . manager of the Commission Co., went to Mosier this morning to attend to the shipping of a quantity of fruit from that point. J. S. Messinger, of Erskinvilie, is in f V. ... Ann vc- u. nA L" I . T J ""J - ..WWW. fe- WUTW - Sherman county will roll up a hand some majoJity for Bryan this fall. Phil Brogan, who recently visited . his stock farm beyond Antelope, says the recent rains started the crass erow- - ing nicely on the hills in that section, and fall feed for sheep will be good. A Dartv consisting of Mrs. V,. R. Coman and two daughters and Mrs. A. D. Morse and two sons, came up on the' Regulator line yesterday from Portland and returned home today. Jack Whike, a former engineer on the O. R. & N. , arrived in the city this morning' from St. Paul, Minesota. TTa will vtait. frlonilo in t.Tic .it.v -frti o fewdavsand continue his iournev to San Francisco. Messrs. C. S. Van- Duyn and C. I. Hood, our second hand furniture J l . a l . t . . t- . uoaiars, reuurneu last mgat irom i-ors-land where thev boncht .laro-elv nf goods in their lines.. fTl. ' . -J - .IT! T TT TT J will be pleased to learn that the Heth- . dist conference has returned him to UB UOWw'l t.w VI UUw wUUtwU. 4U villa o f V. Air W nfA upplvpii hnma liTt tn r. 6.-E. Perry, of the firm of Perry Bros, whose sawmill near Lyle was burned 'some three weeks ago, was in the city last night, and left today for Portland to purchase new machinery for the mill which has been rebuilt. A good audience greeted Prof. Ben Dillon at Baldwin's opera house last night .to hear his first lecture on "Human Nature." All pronounced the gentleman a "decided success as an entertaining speaker and his public examinations were sure hits. Subjeet tonight at 8 p. M. "Animalityof Man." Admission free. It is a little tiull around the East End today, however some business is being done at the warehouses and stock yards. Fargher Bros, shipped 10 cars of lambs ' to Chicago, C. M. .Grimes got three cars of beef off to Troutdale for the Union Meat Co., and the warehouses received some ten or a dozen loads of wheat. By a vote of the school board of f ortiana yesieraay, miss rueine Sutler, of this city, who taught in the Holliday school last year, was promoted to a position in the Harrison school. Miss Butler ' is an accomplished and progressive educator, and the promo tion was an acknowledgment of her ability and thoroughness. It is a pleasure to announce that the . Sunday afternoon concerts will be con tinued during the remainder of the - month, Mark Long having been elected director of the band for the nrponnL Tn t.hn ttipati timA fcbft mpm- bers of the band will endeavor to se- both a cornet player and violinist. The enterprising firm of Johnston Bros., who had their store and entire .stock of goods at Dufur burned a short time since, have reopened in the Brig ham VinilrHnir whfirfit.hpv trill cjinlinilfi business until next spring, when they will erect a large fireproof building. The Johnston boys have a quality of enterprise that cannot be daunted even iby fire. The report of Superintendent Paine of the state insane asylum for the month ending August 31, shows 1090 patients confined in the asylum at that date. During the month 42 patieuts were received, J8 discharged, four died and one escaped. There were 134 officers ana employes engagea in me institution during the month, and the aggregate pay-roll was $4963. For a number of days past a Mrs. Brown has beeu borrowing a whole lot of trouble over an alleged attempt on the part of certain' parties to alienate the affections of her husband, and she has been giving the officers of the law no small amount of annoyance. But .yesterday her troubles all came to an end. The big hearted John Parrott -assumed the roll of peacemaker and smoothed out all her supposed wrongs. The case of the state vs. Hans "Mil lar, tried in Justice ; Filloon's court yesterday, was dismissed. He was ar raigned on a charge of obtaining money on false pretenses, in having given F. W. L. Skibbo an order on Carl Peetz, and afterwards having drawn all money due him from Mr. Peetz. The evidence showed that at the time the order was given there r was a balance due Miller, hence it was beld by the court that there was no violation of law. Just before noon today Wm. Drum mond's team made things lively in -various and sundry parts of town. Mr. Drummond had just finished unloading a load of hay on 10th street when some boys chirped to the horses and away they went down the cut on Union street. At the Gates' building the wasron knocked two posts out from under the corner awning and hung up on a post in front of the Oregon market. There the wagon stopped but the horses kept on running until one fell in front of Williams' store. No damage was done except to the awning and the hay rack, which was a complete wreck. 'rom Thursday's Daily. Miss Anderson went to Portland this morning. Fred Hill went to Portland on the 2:30 train. W. C. Allaway went to Portland this morning. A. L. Roberts went to Cascade Locks this morning. Billy Mansfield went to Hood River, on the 2:30 train. Deputy U. S. Marshall Humphry was in the city this forenoon.' Frank Summers is seeking health and recreation at Cascade springs. Mis3 Emma Jacobsen returned home yesterday from a trip to Stevenson Tonight Herrick's cannery will ship a car load of canned salmon to New York. Alex Thompson was a passenger on the Regulator this morning, going to xroutdale. A. P. Jones and L. Henry the city today, and returned 2:30 train to Hood River. were in on che C. L. Schmidt, a prominent business man of Cascade Locks, spent yesterday in th6 city attending to business be fore the county court. Otto Pieper, a former Dalles boy now a resident of btarbuck, Wash., is spending a few days visiting friends and relatives in this city. Seufert Bros, are making prepara tions to ship fresh salmon east by the car load as soon as the fishermen can begin taking them from the river. Tuesday morning there were three inches of snow at Helena, Mont., and all the Rocky mountain section was covered with snow yesterday morning. Judge Sol Smith, wife and two daughters, of Goldendale, were in the city today en route to Portland, where Miss Alma goes to re-enter the univer sity. '. Since the first of the month the Oregon Fruit Union have shipped four cars of fruit from The Dalles, and will get two more cars out by the end of the week. Murphy & Knox, of Salem, have been awarded the contract for doing the plastering in the new dormatory being erected at the Warm Spring Indian agency. Prof. J. M. C. Miller, who has been elected to the principalship of the Hood River public school, was in the city last night and left on the Regula tor this morning. The combine convention in Klicki tat county could have made no better selection for county surveyor than A. W. Mohr, of Rockland, who was the unanimous choice for that office. Last night the Commission Co. shipped a car of prunes and plums from Mosier and one from The Dalles. Another car will be shipped from Mosier either tonight or tomorrow. This morning one citizen asked an other "why it was the state board had ordered the portage at Cascades torn up?" The answer was: "To keep the Days from appropriating what is left of it." A sample of 21 Hungarian prunes raised in W. H. Taylor's orchard, was left at this office yesterday. They were simply beauties, all of uniform size and color, and the flavor could not be surpassed. This morning Misses Daisy Allaway, Julia Hill and May Sechler left for Eugene to enter the state university. All three of the young ladles are grad uates from The Dalles high school, and are prepared to take up the collegiate course of the university. "Everything has been active on the river today, the fishermen getting their apparatus in readiness to begin fishing tonight and the canneries mak ing preparations to handle tne catch. The river is said to be full of salmon, and a phenominal fall catch is ex pected. Gus Brown, Joe Crate and George Monger are off for another winter's trapping expedition near Mt. Adams, where they will hide themselves away from the world, until next spring. They spent last winter in the same place in the mountains and were quite successful trapping for fur animals. At the stock yards' are 2c0tborough bred Merino rams from Chas. Durbin's place at Antelope. They will be shipped to Idaho for distribution among the sheep raisers of that state. Only a few years ago Oregon sheep' raisers were importing thorougbred3 from the east, now they are able to supply growers in other states. Today the county court went out to the forks of Mill creek to examine a pioie of road for which the citizens of that section ask aid to build. After examining the ground over which the road is to be built and calculating the expense, the court determined the ex penditure would be too great for the benefit to be derived. N. Whealdon arrived home this morning from Spokane.- flir. Wheal don says business appears to be fair in Spokane; he noticed very few vacant business houses, and heard a general demand for residence property. From general appearances, he judges Spo kane to be one of the most thriving cities in the Northwest. J E. Cass, secretary of the Wash ington state board of horticulture, calls attention to the great danger to fruit interests from the landing of new fruit pests from the Orient. He says shippers and fruit-raisers cannot le too careful in this regard, for the scale and other pests of the Orient are far more destructive to trees and fruit than the scales of more temperate zones. Today Sheriff Driver was deput'sed by U. S. Marshal Grady to servo sum mons in the cases of the United States vs. W. H. O'Dell, Chas. B. Donn, E. A. Griffin, Thos. Harris, Wm. Wiley, John Karlin, Wm. Gilhouseo, Wm. E. Hunt and Alsx. Thomson. They are summoned to appear in the U. S. cir cuit court and show cause why they should not be permanently enjoined from herding stock on the Cascade timber reserve. From rnaay's UaUy County court adjourned at noon to day. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Durbin and son, of Antelope, are visiting in the city. - Hon. W. H. Wilson and family ar rived home on today's local from Ilwaco. Mrs. T. J. Rpbinsou went to Hood River today to spend a few days visit ing in that city. Hon. B. F. Allen, of Prineville, and J. P. VanHouten, of Hay Croek, are In the city today. Mrs. W. H. Van Bibber and Miss Katio Lamb went to Lyle this morn ing for a day's visit. Mrs. Sutford, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Riddel I, returned to Portland this morning. D. W. Claypool, a prominent farmer and stockraiser of Crook county, is in the city today buying supplies. Tomorrow John Karlan will ship 13 cars of sheep to Chicago and on Mon day Smith and O'Leary will shin 18 cars. W. T. Shaw and wife, of Dallas, are in the city en route to Burnt Ranch to visit Mrs. Saltzman, Mrs. Shaw's mother. Mrs. John Micheil and daughter re turned home last evening from Port land where they have been visiting the past week. Miss Freda Hatch returned this morning to her home in Portland. She has been visiting Mr. and Vrs. O. L. Barrett in the city. W. H. Dufur and W. H. Staatd, of Dufur, are in the city. They report harvest over in the vicinity of Dufur, and farmers busy bringing their grain to market. This morning the Regulator went down to Lvle and got 500 head of sheep which were brought to The Dalles and shipped to Troutdale by D. P. Ketchum. Prof. Birgfeld came up last night from his summer camp at Geer Lake, and knowing the editor's weakness, supplied him with a choice mess of mountain trout. L. E. Farington left this morning for Eugene to enter the state univer sity. This is Mr. Farnngton's sixth year in the university and he will com plete his course of study this year. Still the wool from the interior seeks storage in The Dalles. W. C. Buick and J. K. Horning arrived last even ing with 48 sacks from Summer Lake, in Lake county, 250 miles south of this place. G. Siebold, of St, Louis, Mo., who has been visiting his old friend and school-fellow, Judge G. A. Lieeb, in this city, left on the 2:30 train for be low. He will visit California before returning home. Today Geo. Luckey, Ed Montgomery and Louie Volroth delivered 258 head of Crook county beef cattle to T. K. Long, of Iowa. The cattle were loaded into ten cars and started on their east ern journey this afternoon. Wheat is coming into The Dalles at the rate of about 100 wagon loads each day. Most of that coming from the Washington side is No. 1, while a con siderable amount of the Wasco county wheat is more or less shriveled, and is graded as No. 2. Yesterday Porter Bros. Co. sold in Chicago for The Dalles Commission Co. a car load of fruit shipped from here on the 3d, at the following prices: Jewett's Hungarian prunes, 81 per crate; Bennett's egg plums, $1.2o; Italian prunes, $1.15. This is the best sale made so far this season. At the meeting of the National Women's Relief Corps recently held in St. Paul. Mrs. Mary Scott Myers, of this city, was elected a member of the national executive board. This is a just recognition of the services Mrs. Meyers has rendered the corps in .this state, while acting as its head officer. - A rather questionable moral atmos phere must prevail in the vicinity of Heppner. A dispatch from that place states that eight divorce cases occu pied the attention of the circuit court, which is now in session, for three days, and the grand jury has indicted Chester Sargent for rape of a 7-year-old girl, and old man Beach for rape of a 11-year-old girl. Sick-poison is a poison which makes you sick. It comes from the stomach. The stomach makes it out of undi gested food. The blood gets it and taints the whole body with it. That's the way of it- . The way to be rid of it is to look after your digestion. If your food is all properly digested, there will be none left in the stomach to make sick-poison out of. If your stomach is too weak to see to this properly by itself, help it along with a few doses of Shaker Digestive Cordial. That0 s the cure of it. Shaker ' Digestive Cordial is a deli cious, healthful, tonic cordial, made of pure medicinal plants, herbs and wine. It positively cures indigestion and prevents the formation of sick-poison. At druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents. Xke JUethodlst Conference. The Methodist Episcopal conference for the Columbia river concluded its work last Sunday night and supplied The Dalles circuit as follows: Robert Warner, presiding 'elder; Antelope, supplied by D. H. Leach; Arlington, G. W. Barnhart; Belmont, Henry Moyes; Bickleton, G. R. Moor head; Cascade Locks, William Hoskins; Columbus, supbiied by J. G. Alford; Dufur, John Evans; Ellensburg, M. H. Marvin; Fort Simcoe, G. M. Booth and J.W.Helen; Fossil, F. S. Johns; Glen wood.supplled by G.. W.White; Golden dale. F. Hawk: Heppner.E. P. Green, Hood River, H. K. Hines; Long Creek, W. H. Henderson; Moro, E. C- Alford: North Yakima, N. Evans; Prairie City, R. C. Motor; Prineville, W. C. Smith; Pros3er, S. L. Burrill; The Dalles, J. H. Wood; Wasco and Grants, C. D. Nicholson; Waldron, Roy O. Had ley: Yakima circuit, supplied by G. R. Archar; West Kittitas, Edward Baker. A Good-Sized Melon. H. T. Corum writes from WapiniMa that he has a water melon grown on Juniper Flat, without irrigation, that is four feet in circumference the long way, three feet 2i inches the smallest way and weighs 44 pounds. This, he says, shows the productiveness of the soil that the McCoy ditch is intended to irrigate. With plenty of water with which to irrigate, Mr. Corum thinks that section will become one of the most productive in the Northwest for all kinds of fruits, vegetables and grains. Children In Need of Homes. On Tuesday , morning I. F. Tobey, district superintendent of the National Children's Home Association, took to Portland two boys, sons of John F.Root. They are . for placement in homes where they will have good instruction and care. Families desiring children of any age for adoption, will please correspond with the Oregon Children's Home Society, room 500 Marquam building, Portland, Oregon. Prices right and goods satisfactory at Johnston's. . Remember the place, next door to A. M. Williams & Co's, THE LORD AND THE LOCKS. Ob sir, dear Lord Why did you do it! Shut up the portage You'll surely rue it. The rains will come, The snow will fall. But our portase is done For good and all. The Lord's against U3. That allcanee The commission stands lu With the powers that!. The Days have conquortd. With help from the throne The portage is closed. So, Hobart, come home. The Regulator can whistle And can puff, and can blow. Handle apples and peaches. But take no wheat below. The locks will be opened November 15, they say, And the boats will go through Some very cold day. GrsGLEB. INFORMATION WANTED. 11 Some Gold standard Man Please Answer This Question. Mb. Editor: The Dalles, Sept. 9th, 1896, The Republican Editorial Associa tion which met yesterday at Canton Ohio, resolved itself into a board of education, to instruct the masses how to vote in this election. So maybo we may have something different from kinder garten lessons in politics in future. but even at the risk of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, I wish to Bug' gest that they get together and hold a sort of normal school first to instruct some of the teachers. For instance in the Oregonian of the 9th, (today,) find this bright "squib." The workingman , who votes for Bryan volunteers to turn half his wages over to millionaire mine-owners and speculators in silver bullion." Now the "campaign statement that if silver wins workmen will be paid in 53-cent dollars," is familiar enough to all of us. The changes have been rung on it for months, and also that other familiar campaign statement that "free coinage, will enrich tne mine owner and bullion speculator. These two seem to me to be like oil and water, they don't mix; either, without the other, misrht serve as the basis of a good argument perhaps, but put to gether as the Oregonian attempts to in its little "squib" above quoted, they make a very poor emulsion that must be well shaken, before taking. Will some good gold man, editor of the Chronicle preferred, please reconcile the two statements for me. The ques tion, in the simplest form I can putit,is this: If,, after free coinage a workman will be paid in 53-cent dollars, the bullion in a dollar now being worth about 53 cents, where does the big profit to the mine owner or bullion speculator come in? Or vice versa, if this is a mine owners campaign and they are spending money to win it, and will get a dollar for 53 cents worth of bullion; a profit we are toltl of 47 cents on each one coined, how can that dollar shrink again to 53 cents the moment it is used to pay wages? Mr. McCamant, in a speech recently made statement No. 2 very dear, but without touching No 1, he said: "Any one may get rich speculating in Mexican silver dollars if we have free coinage, all that is necessary is to take down $1000 in our gold and buy 2,000 Mexican silver dollars, return, have the Mexican dollars coined into United States dollars, demand gold for them at the treasury; go back to Mexico and repeat the process until a multi-millionaire. This being so perspicuous, wa -will not ;K3!i- the Chronicle man to tackle it. With his knowledge of financeering, Mc Camant will soon be rich enough to retire and will of course not care to bother with the kindergarten class any more. But the Chronicle man is respectfully asked how it is, if the free coinage does make the bullion worth more, that the workingman gets his wages cut in two by the same process and by being paid ths same kind of dollar that the mine owner gets. Excuse the suggestion that Mc Camant bo sent to the Normal. Yours, ' ' Pascal, the state fruit exhibit. It Mnst be Made by Eastern Oregon This Tear. Ordinarily Oregon has been able to make a most creditable exhibit of fruits from all sections of the state at the Portland exposition, but this year the display will have to come from Eastern Oregon, and largely from Wasco county. Wm. M. Evans, who has charge of collecting the fruit exhibit, informs the Times-Mountaineer that he has trayeled over Western Oregon from one end to the other, and in no county on that side of the mountains has he been able to get a collection of fruits that would do to place on exhibition, hence he has come to Eastern Oregon, and from what he has seen of the fruit here, is satisfied that an attractive display can be made of the products of this county. A committee of the-Commercial Club will take the matter in hand, and will attend to packing and forwarding all exhibits that are presented. If Wasco county is ever to derive full benefit from making an exhibit, and is to be Awarded the credit that is due it as a fruit growing section, this is the year. . In many other sections the fruit crop has been an utter failure, and although we have had the most unfavorable season ever known, the quality of our fruit is perfect, and the quantity is fair. Let such facts as these be known abroad, and not only our fruit but our fruit land will be in demand. Wasco county can be better advertised by a fruit display at Portland this year than eyer before. MEXICO HEARD FROM. A Former Oregonian Writes Gil ins Some Idea of Prices. A gentleman who resides in The Dalles and has a friend who is a rail road conductor at Silao, Mexico, re cently sent to his friend a table pub lished in the Chicago Times-Herald, and printed for several days in the Oregonian, which pretended to give the comparative prices of articles of general' consumption in Mexico and- the United States, and asked him if the figures published were correct. He received substan tially the following reply: Silao. Mexico, Aug. 31, '96 In regard to the furniture business, I have furniture for four rooms, includ ing a No. 7 cook stove aod utensils, that cost about $130, Mexican money. "I can buy foi eign goods here for very little more in silver than I can get them for in the United States for gold; some things are even cheaper. Beefsteak is about 12 cents a pound. Oil is high here but is getting cheaper. In my judgment a. Dedstead that costs $13 here would cost from $12 to $14 in the United States.' For . $1 - Mexican money I can buy a can of American baking powder that costs 65 cents at home. Hams and bacon are high, as the people do not raise hogs, although they could, but are too indifferent. I can buy a good blanket here for $3, and an imported French blanket for $4. "American furniture is high here because of the duty which is very high. The duty on other foreign goods is low, However, I can get an American sew ing machine here for SG5 to $70 in sil ver that costs $50 in gold at home. "Labor in this country is verycheap of course, but it has raised in the la: three years from 2 C3nts to 50 cents a day and some laborers demand one dollar a day." MORE ABOUT MEXICO. Some of the Reasons Why Wages are Low- in That Country. Walter F. Jackson, of Ot9ego, North Carolina, contributed the following to the New York World, in which he shows some of the reasons for low wages and high living in silver Mexico "Of all the papers I ever read I find The World not only the be3t but the most liberal and just. Siill in its issue of July 23, it published under the head of .'The Shorter Catechism' some statements regarding Mexico that may prove misleading to those who know nothing of the conditions obtaining in that country. "Of course, the World cannot be ignorant of the fact that the laboring class of our sister republic is densely ignorant; that not more than a third of the entire people can either read or write. "Conklin, whose 'Guide to Mexico' furnishes me with the foregoing facts, says further that 'high wages will tend to attract Oermnn and . British miners to Mexico. ' All of which goes to show does it not? that ignorance and incapacity (and is there not also a generous supply of laziness?) are at the bottom of the low wages received by the working classes of Mexico for their labor. Besides, is labor organized there as it is with uj? Have the peo ple sufficient intelligence and spirit to demand their rights? One never hears of collisions between capital and labor there. Give us the same people that Mexico has an exclusive Spanish aristocracy ruling, with Indians, mez- andstizos, mulattoes, zambos and ne groes serving, how would our country compare with theirs them? "Nevertheless, if the latest reports from Mexico are to be believed, she is now in a more prosperous condition than ever before in her history while we, the great mass of the American people, are daily growing poorer and more wretched. . JNow, what is pro ducing these results a silver standard there and a gold standard here? You speak of the high cost of living there. Sugar, at 19 cents a pound, is pretty steep in sober truth, but the Mexican farmer, according to a recent report made by Judge Walter Clark, of the supreme court of North Caro lina, receives 13 cents for his cotton and $1 for his wheat the latter price accounting doubtless for the higher cost of flour. And as for the sugar, I shouldn't wonder if that were con trolled by a trust. For it must be ad mitted that Mexico's tariff laws un less they have been greatly modified since 1885 are exceedingly favorable to the growth of that hideous product of our boasted modern civilization. In conclusion, since you have favored us with a comparison of Mexico, a sil- er country, with the United States, 've no doubt that many of your read ers would be glad to see Spain or Por tugal or Italy, gold countries, com pared with Mexico. If the percentage of ignorance, wretchedsnewB - and beg gary is not alarmingly high -ia those countries; if the great' majority of their people, living on a bunch of grapes and an onion with bread, but no meat, do not 'live at less expense than a farm horse in : New England and not so well,' then American travellers in those countries have given free run to fancy and drawn the long bow with a vengeance." BYRNE THROWS A SCARE He Fears Bryan Will Carry New York State by Defanlt. Major John Byrne, president of the Democratic Honest-Money League, who has spent several . days up tho state, returned yesterday, says the New York World of the 2d instant. Last night an interview with him was given out from headquarters. He says: ' "Both central, western and northern New York are rotten on silver, and unless something is done we will lose the state. - Bryan had wildly enthusiastic' meetings and has left an ugly trail behind, him. "I am alarmed, because if the esti. mates on the other critical states are as erroneous as those on Now York there is no hope for the country. To day an election would give this state to Bryan with 100,000 majority. "The truth is the campaign is goihsr by default; there is too much confi dence and not enough work. "There is a large class railroad men, farm laborers and others whs are for Bryan and free -silver through ignorance, and should 'be save. This education alone will do. : They are not getting the needed instruction and cannot hope to get it unles means can be .had to enable the work to go on. Our league here could do 80 per cent more for the cause than it is doing if it had the means." An Attractive Store. The recent changes that have been made in Mrs. Briggs' millinery store make it one of the handsomest and most attractive places n the city. The store has been thoroughly reno vated, the shelving and show cases have been rearranged, and nothing will be omitted to make the immense new fall stock of millinery the most complete that has ever been brought to the city. The ladies of The Dalles will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Briergs has again secured the services of Miss M. Bottorff as trimmer, and that she is now employed in Portland selecting and arranging Mrs. Briggs' fall stock. -r'- Land Transfers. Columbia Lodge No. -5. 1 O O F to T F- Campbell ni lot 2 row K, in Odd Fellows cemetery $15. Hood River Town site to J B Watt, lots 1 and 2, block 21, Town of Hood River, $1 - . Mathew Randall to Bertie J Bagley, lot 3, block 7, Bigelow addition to Dalles City. $184. Columbia Lodgo No. 5 to Henry A Deitzel lot 24, row M, in Odd Fellows cemetery; $25. G G and Sadie Harpham to O R & N Co., right to lay water pipes through ni neiin sec 1, 1 2 n, r 8 e; $100. Notice. Male or female help furnished cn short notice by the Dalles Employment Office, Cor. 2d and Court' streets, Tel. 309. Lock Box 250. ... . 9sep3t Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder World' Fair Highest Medal and Dlptuma. INFORMATION GRANTED. Mr. Gourlcy Tries to Harmonize two Cam, paiga Theories. The Dalles. Or., Sept. 11, 1390 Editor TiHEs-MotrsrAiNEEB: "Pascal," in yesterday's TIMES MOUNTAINEER, facetiouslv asks "some good gold man" to reconcile th two statements frequently made by sound money campaigners, that free coinage of silver at 16 tp 1 means 5 cent dollars for the wage-earner and profit to the mine owner of 47 cents on every dollar coined. If "Pascal" will admit an answer from a gold man who modestly disclaims the qualifying ad jective "good ' I should say that the two statements, contradictory as they seem, can be reconciled at least in part. There is not a gold etandard man on this broad earth, there hardly an intelligent free silver man either, who does not know from ex penence the only lamp we have to guide us and universal experience at that that the free coinage of any metal at any ratio means the current use of that metal at its bullion value and no more. This rule is now and always ha-i been as invariable as the law of gravitation, as constant in its operation as the ebb and flow of the tides. So fully has this principle been rec ognized by the founders of this repub. lie and all our subsequent law-makers mat no law has ever oeen placed on the statute books of the nation making any coin that enjoyed tho privilege of free mintage legal tender for any amount above its bullion value. The trade dollar is no exception. It was never intended for home use and when its bullion value fell below 100 cents its limited legal tender power was taken away. The statement, therefore, that tho triumph of free silver means 53 cent dollars, or dollars like those of Mexico, Japan and China, passing current at their bullion value, which today is 53-cents and tomorrow may be 40 or 60 cents, and is true to all human experience. But the second statement, namely: that under free coinage the silver miner would enjoy a profit of 47 cents on every dol lar coined, while only true within cir cumscribed limits, is a very proper re tort on those who insist that a simple a3t of congress, opening the United States mints to silver, would double the price of every ounce of silver on the globe. Now the limitations to which I refer are these: Under the proposed free coinage Uncle Sam is asked to stamp his dollar mark, (including our national emblems, the American eagle and goddess of Liberty and the legend "In God we trust" for the balance I pre sume,) on a lump of silver worth today in the markets of the world less than 53 cents. But this1 is not all nor by any means the worst. Uncle Sam is asked to make this 50 odd cent dollar a legal tender for all debts public and private. A resolution to provide for maintaining its parity with gold was scornfully and overwhelmingly re jected by the convention tnat nomi nated Mr. Bryan. Thus the silver miner, after Uncle Sam had put his lying, sacreligious stamp on 50 odd cent's worth-of silver and hauded it back to him, might and (who doubts?) would pass the dollar so coined over to his employes in payment of a hundred cents worth of labor. Would, that is, till the employes would block the game by demanding a "specific contract," or in case that right is denied them by the decision of a packed supreme court, (which the - deiao-populist plat form threatens,) 'as a dernier" resort, with p. d. q. velocity, refuse to workT Within such limitation only, manifest ly circumscribed by time and opportu nity, would the eilver miner reap a prout of 4i cents on any like sum on the dollars so coined. Haying thus answered "Pascal" in all candor let me, in turn, ask him to reconcile two statements constantly made by free silver orators and espe cially, with like constancy, by tho boy orator of the Platte." Mr. Bryan hardly ever opens his mouth, and it has been wide open for lo these many days, that he does not commend free coinage to the debtors of the nation on the ground that it will give them cheap money wherewith to pay their debts, while in one a and the same breath he maintains that it will raise the price of silver to $1.29 an ounce, that to, to an equality with gold. Now no one would be better pleased to see silver on an equality with gold at the present legal ratio than the very men whom "Pascal's" congeners ap probriously dubb gold bugs, but in that case where would the poor debior get his cheap dollars ? But pshaw! there is not a man with a thimbleful of brains on the American continent capable of believing such stuff. But, if otherwise, the sooner Willie Bryan is entered a? a pupil in "Pascal's" kin dergarden the better for himstlf and the country. . HUGH GOURLAY. Bather Premature. The state board of portage commis sioners have ordered Superintendent Hobart to take up the tracks, frogs, etc., of the state portage road at Cas cades. This action was determined upon through the recommendation of Mr. Hobart, who expresses his con fidence that the canal and locks will be completed by Nov. 15, hence ho deems it unadvisable for the state to mako any expenditures for repairs on the road. The order to tear up the rood would seem to be premature. The canal and locks are not . yet com pleted, and possibly may not be for a year to come. In such an event the portage road would be a most con venient thing to have lying around. Of course we all hope the locks will be opened by Nov. 15, and that after that date there will be no need of the port age, but -if they are not, and the peo ple of Eastern Oregon are deprived of the use of the Columbia river as a means of transmittingfreight, through the action of the state board in order ing the portage-torn up,the impression will prevail that the state board has exceeded its jurisdiction. Bryan Club. All persons, irrespective of former political belief or affiliations, who are in favor of equal rights to all and special priviiedges to none, who have the good of the common people a heart, and believe in unholding the principles now being so ably enun ciated by William J. Bryan, candidate for president of the United States, are hereby requested to meet at the court house, in Dalles City, on Saturday evening, September 12, 1896, for the purpose of organizing a W. J. Bryan club. Let everybody who is inter ested in thiaause come out. J B. Crossen, J. L. Story, Ai.. Reese, Committee. Attention t Attention! Good fresh pasture with plenty of water on Three-Mile. Horses $1 per month, cattle 50 cents. Address, John Byan The Dalles. . .. . Letters Advertised. " The following is the list of letters re maining in The Dalles Dostoffice un called for September 11, 1896. Persor calling for these letters will please give date on which they wore ad vertised: Armstrong, H V (2) Slake, G W Brown, L L Bere.-ford, Jennie Clark, M J Mrs Donaldson, Laura uavis, Alias K .11 Davenport, Miss Kichlick, M Grant, Carrie Herman, Dora HmTington. Marcus llarsell. Agues f) Koisay, 1? S Ludwick. Emma Meador, E H Kelsny, D A Mathews, Jno Nicola. E Rice, W B Smith, Mary L Thomas, Melvin Loh'-ei, Konrad Owens, Tliss N Patterson, Culbert McDonald, Millie Nesson, P Reed, Geo M Smith, Daniel L Templeton. Will Whipple, W H Wartield, J M D Yeackel, Henry. J. A. Crossen , P. M. The Wasco Warehouse Co. beg leave to inform farmers that they havestor age room for 200,000 sacks of wheat and any one wishing to store their wheat and hold for later market can do so on usual terms. Also, thev will oav tho highest cash price for wheat, oats barley and rye. tf UARBlEo. URQUHART-MAltyUIS At the residence of me uriue puri'Dis. seven miles west or The uauea. on Sunday. Sept. 8, Mr. A. A. Urqu nart ana Miss Ada Marquis, Rev. L. Gray wlllUlUUUg. BORN. HAGAN In this city. Sept. 7. to the wife of .fiuit.-3 nuu, a son. WEBSTKR-In this city. Sept. 7. to the wife ot ai vv cDstt-r. a son. KINEKSLY In this city on Sent. 7.th to wiiu u wtiuu n-merso , a son. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT, TO WHCM IT MAY t'OVr-Env: TlntlpB 1 horo. by Kiven that Thomas W. Glavcv lias filed his final account as administrator of the estate of i-atricK Dorns. deceased, and that said llnul account will come on for hearing on Monday, the 2d day of November, ifm. nt the hour of a o ciock p. m. or said day, at which time a bear inif will be had as to any and ail objections to sam un-i account ana tne settlement tnereor. This notice is given by order of Honorable Robert Mays. County Judire of Wasco Countv. ure(,-uu. Dated this 7th nay of September, lf98. THOMAS W. (iLAVEY. AdrrTr of the estate of Patrick Dorris, deed. 2sept.l.W9. -TO THE TI GIVES The Mca of Tbo T aiiECOHtinenial Rentes VIA SPOKANE MIXEEAPOLIS VIA DENVER OMAHA v AXD KM3AS AND ST.PAUL Low Rates to All Eastern Cities OCEAN STEAMERS leave . five days for Portland every SAN FRANCISCO, CALfl. For full details call on the O. R. & N. Atrent at THE DALLES, or address E. McNElLJ President and Manager. . W. H. HURLBURT, Gen, Pass. Airt., '"' . Portland, Oregon New O. K. A N. Schedule. Train No. I arrives at The Dalles 50 A. M., and leaves 4:55 A. M. Train No. 2 arrives at Tho Dalles 10:40 p. M. , and leaves 10:45 p. M. Tram No. o arrives at Tho Dalles 2:(5 P. M., and west-bound train No. 7 leaves at 2:30 p. a. Train 23 and 24 will carry passengers between The Dalles and Umatilla, leaving The Dalles at 1 P. M. daily and arriving at The Dalles at 1 P. M. daily, connecting with train Nos. 8 and 7 from Portland. E. E. Lytle,' Agent. R U N S PULLMAN SLEEPING CAES ELEGANT i)INING CARS TOURIST SLEEPING CARS MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL GRAND FORKS DCLTJTH FARGO CKOOifSTON WINNIPEG HELENA and nCTTE. to THROUGH TICKETS TO CHICAGO WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BOSTON and all POINTS EAST and SOUTH. For information, time cards, maps and tloltets, call on or write, W. C. ALLAWAY, Agent Or A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Pas sen er Agent. No. KS Morrison Street, Cor ner Oj Third Street, Portland, Oregon pator The Dalles, Portland anil Astoria Navigation Co. THROUGH F:eioni ana Passsnosr Lins Through Daily trips (Sundays ex cepted) between The Dalles and Port land. Steamer Regulator leaves The Dalles at 8 a. m., connecting at the Cascades Locks with Steamer Dalles City. Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland (Oak street dock) at 7 a. m., connecting with Steamer Regulator for The Dalles. PASSENGER RATES Oho way. . . Bound trip. :2 00 . 3 00 Freight Rates Reduced Shipments for Portland received at any time, day or night. Shipments for way landings must be delivered before 5 p. m. Live stock shipments solic ited. Call on or address, ial O HLLHWHY. General Agent THE - DALIES - OREGON. The i i Lie B' .EST with a big B. Blackwell's Genuine Durham la in a class by itself. You will coupon Inside each two ounce bag, and pons Inside each four ounce bag of Blackwell's Smoking Bay n bog of this celebrated tobacco and read the coupon which gives a llstof valuable presents and how to get tbem. Till BOTH OF leeond Intern Oregon District WILL BE THE DALLES, COMMENCING Tuesday And Ending Saturday, October 24th, 1896 . . . For Premium Lists. Entrv Blanks and all infnrmn- ion, write to the Secretary, A. S. J. O. MACK, Sec, ...Oregon Industrial Exposition.,.. PORTLAND, September 19 GREAT RESOURCES HE Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries, Mines, Manufactures, Machinery, Transportation, Trade and Commerce will be made more completely than ever before. . . . Grand Band Concert Every Afternoon and Evening . .. Special Attractions Every Night .. owest Rates Ever Made ADMISSION 25 Cents. For Exhibit space, apply to UbUKUC L. K C. MASTEN, Secretary Wlien You Want Seed Wheat, Feed Wheat, Rolled Barley, Whole Barley, Oats, Rye, Bran, Shorts, Hay, : Or anything in the Feed Line, go tothe : "WASCO - WAREHOUSE Our prices are low and our goods are first-class. Apents for the celebrated WAITS BURG "PEERLESS," and DYERS' BEST PENDLETON MILLS FLOUR. Highest cash price paid for WHEAT. OATS, and BARLEY. Mon arc Mixed Paints A PURE LINS1D OIL PAINT NO WATER NO BENZINE MANUFACTURED BY THE Senour . Manufacturing Co., ojL Chicago - For sab by Jos. T Peters & Co, agents for Senour's Monarch Floor and Carriage Paints 7 t? ; Amnnu km I mmm and forraiDg Merchant . 391. 393 HND 395 SECOND STRE6T. (Adjoining Railroad Depot.)- ConsigniiieDts Solicited Prompt Attention Paid t3 Those Who Favor Me With Their Patronage Fruit Boxe$ of KDcutat pme AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. Teach Boxes $5 00 per 100 Cantalopo Crates $9 50 per 100 Lumber and Building Materials at proportionate prices. ROWE & CO. Bull St X And one X two ooa lorl Tobacco ANNUAL FAIR THE Agl Society HELD AT- WASCO COUNTY, Oct-'20, 1896 The Dalles, Oregon. MACALISTER, Pres. OREGON. to October 17. OF FACIFIC NORTHWEST on all Transportation lines CHILDREN 10 Cents. BAKER, Superintendent, at tbe Bulldlnf to Buy no baryt: 1